Just trying to resolve some cognitive dissonance for Trump supporters who maybe haven’t thought about it in these terms.

Just a reminder that there are a far more allegations against Trump, and Trump has been found liable for rape, and yet Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.

I just use TurboTax, which asks you questions in order to generate your return, and automatically integrates with most online accounts. There are free alternatives, too.

I’m sure there were a huge swath of people who used Twitter and didn’t care at all about Musk one way or the other.

Then he rebranded and threw his ego and control in everyone’s face. And all the people who like Twitter IN SPITE of Elon were now forced to acknowledge that their Twitter is gone.

Just like over at reddit now, the latest move has alienated the people who really cared about the platform itself. If they rebranded to “Spez’s World”, though, a lot of the people who didn’t give a shit before would suddenly be ready to bail.

An important thing to remember about any topic is that it’s actually more accessible than you’d think.

Even quantum computing boils down to basic matrix math that you can learn in 5 minutes, the concept of superposition, and an understanding of logic gates. These are all intimidating concepts, but always, always, always complicated terminology is just simple concepts stacked onto each other.

That stuff about the inverse square law… all it is is being aware that it’s an equation that measures how weak an omnidirectional signal gets the farther away from it you move. So, for example how much light a lightbulb would send into your eye based on how close you are to it.

Lasers use phased lightwaves that don’t dim at a distance the way a lightbulb does because they are not omnidirectional. All their light is highly focused in one direction.

So when he mentioned the inverse square law it sounded wrong to me, so I asked the question. I didn’t know. Maybe it’s a modified version of that equation?

It never hurts to ask. And it turns out that he did misspeak. He corrected himself, and now I’ve learned just a tiny bit more than I knew before.

I have worked extensively to build out gpt-4 and give it memory and other attributes.

I have no doubt at all that with supplemental modules to expand its context, it’s absolutely an AGI.

That’s an incredibly ignorant take.

LLMs are the first glimmer of artificial GENERAL intelligence (AGI). They are the most important invention perhaps of all time.

They will fundamentally change our society, our economy, and they pose an existential threat to mankind, not to mention begging existential questions about our purpose for existing at all in a world where very shortly computers will be able to out-think and out-create us.

Quantum computers are … neat. They will allow us to solve problems conventional computers can’t. They may make current encryption models obsolete … but I haven’t heard any proposed usage of them that would be even a fraction as profound as AGI.

I wonder if the engineers have a jar in the laboratory, where you have to put in a dollar every time you refer to the laser as a “death ray.”

The inverse square law applies to lasers?!

Not a fan of Tesla or Musk, but I think it always bears repeating in these conversations that AI driving will be much safer than human driving if it isn’t already.

Unfortunately, accidents will happen, but when an accident happens with an AI, ALL the other AI’s get to learn from that failure going forward.

I’m very happy that in my old age, I’ll have some future version of this driving me around… or more likely, taking the wheel from me if I do something stupid.

I pay $22 per month for the family plan because I don’t want my kids or my folks to have to be constantly inundated with ads. And I enjoy being and to play free music that is exactly the songs I want.

I was really upset when they raised the price on me, and kicked me off the grandfather plan. But in the end I decided it was still worth it.

But what the real cost to Google is here is that they have evaporated my loyalty and good will. I now see them as a company that will squeeze me when they know they can get away with it, and that my loyalty and being an early adopter means nothing to them.

That will definitely affect every future buying decision I make for future products and services.